I love jigsaw puzzles.  My whole family does, in fact; the more challenging the better!  One of my favorite ones had the identical image printed on both sides – with one side rotated a quarter turn!  Now, THAT was fun.  We’d get little sections of the picture put together, only to find that they wouldn’t fit with the rest of what we had together; we’d have to turn it over before we could put it in place.  Or we’d need to find a particular connecting piece, and search and search for it, almost concluding that it must have gotten lost, only to flip a piece over and – voila! – it was easy to find once it was right side up.  I have figured out that life is a lot like that puzzle!

I’ll think I’ve gotten something all figured out, neat and tidy and tied with a ribbon, only to find that it doesn’t seem to quite fit in with the rest of reality; not until God comes and turns it all topsy-turvey does it finally fit.  Or I search and search for something I think I’m missing, searching to the point of desperation sometimes, only to find that the answer was in front of me all the time – I just hadn’t been looking at it from the right angle.  God has promised that He DOES have all the pieces, none are missing; and He promises that they all FIT, too.  The truth is, the picture is so vast that I will only ever be able to see a small section of it.  I’m learning to deal with just the piece directly in front of me, and to leave the rest of the puzzle in His more-than-capable hands.